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Author: Emerson Whitney
Publisher: McSweeney's Publishing
Imprint: McSweeney's Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 14.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 19.60cm
Weight: 0.263kg
ISBN: 9781952119545
ISBN 10: 1952119545
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 01 November 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
A finalist for the Believer Book Award Named a best book by Kirkus, Bomb, the AV Club, PAPER, Literary Hub, Refinery29, Ms. Magazine, Chicago Review of Books, the Observer, and the Seattle Times. ""Whitney stands as a deft executor of their own unique style... a writer who guides with an intuitive vulnerability and honesty."" --The Paris Review ""An incisive, nuanced inquiry into gender and body."" --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ""Melodic and engagingly written, Heaven will enrapture anyone who loves reading for beauty and intellectual challenge at once."" --Literary Hub ""Emerson Whitney's first prose book is a frank and absorbing examination of transness, brokenness, mothering, femininity, embodiment and truth."" --Ms. Magazine One of the Observer's Best Books of Spring ""Heaven is an unflinching personal examination of family and identity, bearing witness to what it means to live life on one's own terms."" --Foreword Reviews ""A gripping memoir whose sentences are akin to a skipped heartbeat"" --PAPER, best books to buy in Quarantine ""(U)tterly hypnotic... a gorgeous book that feels like a painting"" --The Seattle Times, Women's History Month Reading List ""(W)hat Heaven does best is capture the disorienting pull of unsettling childhood memories--at once incomplete and terribly weighted."" --AV Club ""Provocative, emotional, infinitely faceted... a reminder that messiness is at the heart of all beautiful things"" --Refinery29
A finalist for the Believer Book Award Named a best book by Kirkus, Bomb, the AV Club, PAPER, Literary Hub, Refinery29, Ms. Magazine, Chicago Review of Books, the Observer, and the Seattle Times. Whitney stands as a deft executor of their own unique style... a writer who guides with an intuitive vulnerability and honesty. --The Paris Review An incisive, nuanced inquiry into gender and body. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Melodic and engagingly written, Heaven will enrapture anyone who loves reading for beauty and intellectual challenge at once. --Literary Hub Emerson Whitney's first prose book is a frank and absorbing examination of transness, brokenness, mothering, femininity, embodiment and truth. --Ms. Magazine One of the Observer's Best Books of Spring Heaven is an unflinching personal examination of family and identity, bearing witness to what it means to live life on one's own terms. --Foreword Reviews A gripping memoir whose sentences are akin to a skipped heartbeat --PAPER, best books to buy in Quarantine (U)tterly hypnotic... a gorgeous book that feels like a painting --The Seattle Times, Women's History Month Reading List (W)hat Heaven does best is capture the disorienting pull of unsettling childhood memories--at once incomplete and terribly weighted. --AV Club Provocative, emotional, infinitely faceted... a reminder that messiness is at the heart of all beautiful things --Refinery29
Author Information
Emerson Whitney is the author of the poetry title Ghost Box (Timeless Infinite Light, 2014). Emerson teaches in the BFA creative writing program at Goddard College and is the Dana and David Dornsife Teaching Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California.
